Since 8 October 2025 British Disney+ subscribers have had a Hulu tile in the app, included at no extra cost. It is a real change and it is not a trick — but it is a rename, not an arrival. The tile is the Star hub that was already there.
US Hulu remains a separate service with its own app, a larger library and live television, and Disney’s own agreement keeps it in the United States. This page sets the two side by side, lists precisely what does not travel, and says which of it a residential US IP address can and cannot reach.
Open Disney+ in the United Kingdom and there is a Hulu tile, included, at no extra charge. It appeared on 8 October 2025, and it did not arrive with new content — it is the Star hub that was already there, wearing a different name. Disney says as much plainly on its Canadian site: the Star tile “has now been renamed the ‘Hulu’ tile”.
US Hulu is a different product. It has its own app, its own subscription, a larger library and a live television service, and Disney’s subscriber agreement places it in the United States and certain of its territories. The two things share a name and very little else.
| The Hulu tile in your Disney+ | US Hulu (hulu.com) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Disney’s international general-entertainment hub, renamed from Star | A separate streaming service with its own app |
| How you get it | Included in your Disney+ subscription | A separate subscription, or a US bundle from $12.99/month |
| Live television | No | Yes — Hulu + Live TV, from $89.99/month |
| Where the agreement puts it | Wherever Disney+ is sold | “the United States and certain of its territories” |
| Same catalogue? | Not published. Disney has released no comparison, so this page does not claim one in either direction. | Not published. See left. |
None of this is a complaint about the rename. Reusing a strong brand across markets is an ordinary commercial decision. It just means that from October 2025 onwards, the sentence “I have Hulu” stopped having one meaning, and a great deal of advice written for American readers stopped applying cleanly to British ones.
Disney’s agreement is unusually specific about this, which makes the list shorter and firmer than it is for most services. Two named services are confined to the United States by the agreement’s own words, and one feature is confined even more tightly than that.
Everything else is a catalogue question rather than an availability question — different titles in different markets, negotiated market by market, and changing constantly.
| What | Where it is available | Can a connection change that? |
|---|---|---|
| US Hulu (the service, not the tile) | The United States and certain of its territories, per the agreement | No — this is about who may subscribe, not where a packet comes from |
| ESPN (the direct-to-consumer service) | The United States and certain of its territories, per the agreement | No — same reason |
| Hulu + Live TV | The 50 United States and the District of Columbia only | No — narrower than the rest, and excludes US territories |
| Individual titles | Varies by market and changes constantly | Partly — what you are shown follows the rights where you connect from |
The same word across the five markets this site covers for Disney+. Your row is the second one, and the reason to look at the others is that most of the advice you will read was written for a different row.
Disney announced the rename in October 2025 and it took effect on the eighth. The release describes it as replacing Star “in international markets” and does not list them — which is why the Japanese row below is worth a glance even if you never go there.
| Market | What “Hulu” is there | Included in Disney+? |
|---|---|---|
| United States | A separate service with its own app and a larger library | Only on a bundle — $12.99/month, one dollar more than Disney+ alone |
| United Kingdom | A tile inside Disney+, renamed from Star on 8 October 2025 | Yes — included in the Disney+ subscription |
| Canada | A tile inside Disney+, renamed from Star on 8 October 2025 | Yes — included in the Disney+ subscription |
| Japan | Nippon TV’s unrelated service. Disney+ Japan still shows スター. | No — and the Disney tile there is not called Hulu at all |
| India | Not applicable — Disney+ is not sold in India | — |
None of the differences above are caused by anyone’s connection and none are fixed by changing one. They are brand and licensing decisions made market by market. What a connection changes gets its own section below.
The United Kingdom has a full Disney+ service across three tiers, and Disney prices both a six-month saver rate and an annual rate below the monthly one.
All three tiers include the Hulu tile. It is not an upsell and there is no tier at which it appears or disappears — which is itself a clue that it is the renamed Star hub rather than a bolt-on product.
| Plan | Monthly | Six-month saver | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard With Ads | £5.99 | £4.99/month | — |
| Standard | £9.99 | £7.99/month | £99.90 |
| Premium | £14.99 | £10.99/month | £149.90 |
Six brands sit behind those prices: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and Hulu as the general-entertainment name. No tier buys an American catalogue, because the titles inside each brand are licensed country by country, and a British subscription licenses Britain.
There is a reason this page keeps insisting that a tile and a service are different things, and it is not pedantry. The clearest evidence comes from a story that has been reported wrongly for nine months.
The claim is that the Hulu app is closing and folding into Disney+ — which would, incidentally, make “the Hulu tile” and “Hulu” the same thing at last. It has not happened, and Disney’s own storefront is the proof.
For a British reader the footnote does more than correct a headline. It is Disney, in its own commercial copy, telling American buyers that Disney+ does not carry everything Hulu carries. If that is true of the American Disney+ app — the one in the same country as the Hulu library — it is a poor bet that a renamed British tile is the whole of Hulu.
Enough about what things are called. Here is what is actually written down, and one sentence of it is more useful than everything else on this subject combined.
Most services either say nothing about travel or wave at it disapprovingly. Disney names the case outright: bought in the United States, used somewhere else Disney+ operates — Britain among them. Read what the sentence is about, though. It concerns the subscription, not the library. Rights are sold territory by territory, and an app answers to the territory the request came from.
After two sections arguing that a tile is not a service, it would be poor form to be vague here. A residential US IP address is a consumer line in the United States rather than a datacentre range, and this is precisely how far it goes.
| Layer | What it controls | Does a residential US IP move it? |
|---|---|---|
| Network location | Where your connection appears to originate. | Yes. This is the one layer it moves, and the only one. |
| The Territory your account belongs to | Where the account was opened, which fixes what may ever be sold to it. | No. It is a property of the account and of the purchase. No connection reaches it. |
| Catalogue and brand rights in your country | Which titles are licensed in the United Kingdom, and what the tile is called. | No. Brand and catalogue rights are negotiated market by market. |
| The app store on your device | Which storefront offers you the app, and which payment methods it accepts. | No. The store decides by account country, not by network. |
The American price list, for comparison with the British one above. Read the first three rows as a group and the reason for so much transatlantic confusion becomes obvious: over there, adding Hulu to Disney+ costs a dollar.
| US plan | Price | Offer or annual | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disney+ (With Ads) | $11.99/month | — | Disney+ only. Hulu is not included. |
| Disney+ Premium (No Ads) | $18.99/month | $189.99/year | Disney+ only. Hulu is not included. |
| Disney+, Hulu Bundle | $12.99/month | $11.99/month for the first 6 months | One dollar more than Disney+ alone. |
| Disney+, Hulu Bundle Premium | $19.99/month | $17.99/month for the first 6 months | Ad-free on Disney+ and Hulu. |
| Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Select Bundle | $21.99/month | — | Adds ESPN Select. |
| Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle | $35.99/month | — | Adds ESPN Unlimited. |
| Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max Bundle (With Ads) | $19.99/month | — | Adds HBO Max. |
| Disney+ & Hulu Student | $6.49/month | — | Eligibility verified by Disney. |
This sequence exists because the subject is full of confident claims and short of checkable ones. It trades breadth for certainty: you will learn about two titles rather than a whole catalogue, but what you learn will be true.
Before anything else, search Disney+ for the title from your own sofa. British readers regularly go looking for something the renamed tile already carries, and two minutes here ends the exercise more often than anything below.
Result: quite possibly, you are done.
“American Hulu stuff” cannot be tested. One named title can. The whole value of this sequence is that it produces a yes or a no about a specific thing rather than an impression.
Result: something testable.
Same account, same browser, connection changed, then reload the page rather than clicking around inside the app. A browser also takes the app store out of the picture, which removes a whole layer before you start.
Result: a yes or a no about that one title.
One title is an anecdote. Two agreeing is a pattern, and it is the difference between “the catalogue differs” and “that one show is licensed elsewhere” — which have completely different implications for whether anything is worth buying.
Result: a conclusion you can defend.
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One Disney+ account can present differently on four devices in the same house, and almost none of that is your connection. Each device below is described by what it is good for in this particular investigation.
This is the measuring instrument. A browser shows you the raw service with no store layer in between, which makes it the only device where a before-and-after comparison means anything.
The USip Windows guide covers the connection step itself. Come back here for what to do with the result, which is the part that decides anything.
Useful as a second opinion rather than a second test. Safari and Chrome enforce playback protection differently, so a Mac can tell you whether a failure is about rights or about the browser you happened to use.
The USip Mac guide covers the connection step itself. Come back here for what to do with the result, which is the part that decides anything.
Not a measuring instrument at all. The App Store account’s country has already shaped what you are offered and how you are billed before the app opens, so a difference here tells you about Apple rather than about Disney.
The USip iOS guide covers the connection step itself. Come back here for what to do with the result, which is the part that decides anything.
The same caveat as iOS, with one British wrinkle: a Disney+ subscription taken out through a mobile or broadband provider is administered by that provider, not by Disney, and that changes who you have to talk to when something goes wrong.
The USip Android guide covers the connection step itself. Come back here for what to do with the result, which is the part that decides anything.
Worth reading before you touch anything. A television is the one device in the house where an experiment can cost you an evening: it holds a store account set up once, often years ago, and undoing that can mean a factory reset and re-pairing every other app on it.
Everything above is reversible in seconds. A television frequently is not, and the asymmetry is the whole argument: there is no cost to proving something in a browser first and a real cost to guessing on the largest screen in the house.
Disney files error 73 under two quite different messages, which most guides flatten into one problem with one remedy. Knowing which message you actually got is worth more than any remedy.
| What the message says | What it is telling you | What to check first |
|---|---|---|
| “This content isn’t available to watch in your current location…” | A title-level block. The service is working where you are; this particular title is not licensed to be shown there. | Try a different title. If others play, this is licensing, and the service is fine. In the UK this is the one you should expect. |
| “Disney+ is only available in certain regions…” | A service-level block. Disney+ is not offered where it thinks you are. | Check where your connection appears to be. In the UK you should not normally see this message at all. |
Likely layer: Rights, negotiated market by market
Next check: This is the ordinary case and there is nothing broken. It is also the only case on this list where a different connection is even relevant.
Likely layer: A hub is not a service
Next check: Working as designed. The tile is the renamed Star hub and Disney has published no comparison between its contents and the US Hulu library.
Likely layer: Eligibility, which is a residency question
Next check: The agreement confines ESPN and Hulu to the United States and certain territories, and Live TV to the 50 states and DC. Read the agreement rather than trying a different connection.
Likely layer: Almost certainly licensing, occasionally billing
Next check: Title rights lapse on fixed dates and services do not announce it. Check whether other titles still play before assuming anything about your account.
A consumer internet line in the United States rather than a datacentre range. On the four-layer table further up it is row one and only row one, which is the honest way to describe what is on sale here.
€9.99 each month after the 3-day trial ends.
€39 per six months after the trial ends.
€69 per year after the trial ends.
Answers with their sources attached, and a plain statement where a source does not exist.
The Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu Subscriber Agreement is the document that answers this, and it is linked in full in the Sources section of this page. Read the agreement rather than a summary of it — this page quotes the clauses relevant to the questions it asks, not the whole document, and what governs your subscription is the document.
You have Disney’s international general-entertainment hub, which was called Star until 8 October 2025 and now carries the Hulu name. It is included in your subscription. US Hulu is a separate service with its own app, a larger library and live television, and the agreement places it in the United States and certain of its territories.
Disney has published no catalogue comparison, so this page will not give you a number or a percentage in either direction. What is documented is that the tile is the renamed Star hub included in your subscription, and that US Hulu is a separate service. Anyone quoting a precise figure is estimating.
No, and it is worth knowing how narrow this one is: hulu.com states that Live TV is available in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia only — a smaller area than the rest of the service, which the agreement extends to certain US territories as well.
It has been reported repeatedly since December 2025 and it has not happened. On 16 September 2026 hulu.com sells Hulu plans including Live TV, and Disney’s own US signup page still says additional content is only available via the Hulu app. No Disney source has published a shutdown date.
Disney’s agreement contemplates subscriptions being used in other locations where Disney+ is made available, and the relevant sentence is quoted on this page. What you are shown follows the rights where you are connecting from, so the catalogue can change while the subscription does not.
It moves exactly one of the four layers: where the request appears to come from. Your account’s Territory, British rights and your app store are all untouched. The four steps above are a cheap way to find out whether that one layer is what stands in your way.
What to read next, depending on whether your question turned out to be about a name, a catalogue, or a border.
Every address behind every quotation above, with the day it was read. Where something could not be retrieved, the gap is named below rather than papered over.
Two limits, stated rather than glossed. Disney publishes no comparison between the international Hulu tile’s catalogue and the US Hulu library, so this page gives no figure for it in either direction. The bodies of Disney’s error-73 help articles could not be retrieved, so only the two message strings Disney publishes as those articles’ titles are quoted. Prices were read on 16 September 2026 and move without notice.
One layer of four is what a connection is. The other three belong to Disney’s agreement, to the rights it negotiates market by market, and to whichever app store your devices are signed into.